Word: authors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Questioners. The commissioners were serious and conscientious men. Their chairman was Thomas K. Finletter, a dry, sharp-eyed Wall Street lawyer (Coudert Bros.), onetime special assistant to Cordell Hull and author of a book, Can Representative Government Do the Job?, which pointed out the inefficiencies of the U.S. Government...
Bread Crumb and Gunpowder Crumb were hero and villain of a new fairy tale written by Soviet Author Andrei Platonov for Pionerskaya Pravda, which aims to show the Socialist way to children under 14. Author Platonov put his two Crumbs in a hunter's beard, and there got them into arguments. Gunpowder Crumb threatened to blow up not only Bread Crumb, but self, beard and hunter. At the moment of crisis, a sparrow snatched Gunpowder from the hunter's brush and was heroically destroyed when Gunpowder exploded. Bread Crumb, meanwhile, came to his appointed happy end. The hunter...
...mind ... a pathetic demonstration of sycophants. ... I wish the British would test our ridiculous national sub servience by offering a few of their hollow titles in the American open market . . . just to see who would leap at the chance to buy one." Columnist Elsa Maxwell reported that Author John Gunther (Inside U.S.A.) had told her he was reading Thucydides' Peloponnesian War "to learn all about modern politics and modern war." Added Elsa: "Maybe I didn't grab my old Thucydides that night...
...about-Pineboro; Bill Boone, onetime football star; and Blackie Boone, his wife-"ask anybody in Fillmore about her." The portraits have the hard authenticity of those notices that are put up in post offices of people who are wanted for murder. And the characters seem like suspects in Author Gibbons' police lineup, blinking in the limelight, not quite sure of what they are charged with...
...Author Pratt has told the Marines' story so simply and graphically that civilian readers will share the feel of battle, and so soundly that the book could serve as a text on amphibious warfare...